Please use this suggestion for posting!

Shy1 said:

What we're trying to point out in this thread is that reposting the
same original message over and over again is what's REALLY a waste
of bandwidth. Also, using a new subject line to reflect what you're
about to say in the message body is also a great idea, imho.
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Steve S---> > D1X-CP5700
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...then folks would catch on to the value.

We could also encourage other by thanking them.

'Imola-rED'
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Jeff:

I could agree with this, but only if everyone posting was a porfessional writer. Let's face it, for the most part, we post/respond "off the cuff." Our comments are usually extemperanious and often meander a bit, trying to get our feelings out as fast as the synapses fire from the brain to the fingertips.

Editing posts to capture the relevent text only is often a serious challenge!

Frank (I understand the spirit of what youi're saying, just not the practicality, lol).

Jeff Peterman said:

Frank
It really is not hard to copy the relevent text from the orginal
message before press Reply and then post it into response. That's
much less effort than having to delete the old message every time.

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oh yeah, and get the new gal in trouble, eh? LOL

thanking is good too:

"We could also encourage other by thanking them.
'Imola-rED'
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Frank,

Frank Vigil said:

Frank Vigil said:

Editing posts to capture the relevent text only is often a serious challenge!

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Its not that much effort is you only pick the key point(s) and then ramble on from there.

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Shy1 said:

This is a direct quote from the webmaster:
"Please trim as much of the quoted (> ) message as possible
(anything that's not relevant
to your posting)".
If you don't already know how to do this, simply left click and
drag over the portion to be removed, then hit delete. The reason
for me posting this is that it becomes very tiresome to have to
wade through all the repeat, duplicate posts just to get to the new
posting at the bottom of the page. Saves bandwidth too ;
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I've just remembered a reply from Phil Askey related to this. Here ----> http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1007&message=3246940
Besides being annoying for some, bandwidth does not seem to be a big issue.

Shy1 wrote: